Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 18

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December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958)

218 BC - Hannibal (pictured) had his first great victory over the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia.
1865 - Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
1961 - Indonesia invaded Dutch New Guinea to annex West Papua on New Guinea.
1966 - Epimetheus, one of Saturn's natural satellites, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
1987 - The programming language Perl was released by Larry Wall.